I cannot connect to my SMTP externally from my server. If a telnet on the server I get a response but when I telnet on a separate machine I get "Unable to connect to remote host". After trying telnet I tried added my account to an email client with password authentication and still unable to connect.

No router installed. What is really odd is that when use a mail client to send and receive through port 2525 seems to be working fine. However, all emails that are sent out are addressed with the server name "[email protected]" and also "[email protected]".

When sending an email from the system, localhost, using Java Mail and using SMTP setting mail.example.com through port 2525 all emails are marked as "Relay Access Denied".

No router installed. What is really odd is that when use a mail client to send and receive through port 2525 seems to be working fine. However, all emails that are sent out are addressed with the server name "[email protected]" and also "[email protected]".

When sending an email from the system, localhost, using Java Mail and using SMTP setting mail.example.com through port 2525 all emails are marked as "Relay Access Denied".

Falko I am using localhost for the time being and yes I am hiding the IP addresses in this posting thus they begin with 00. I'm surprised that no one else had the same issue as I used the tutorial 3 times and got the same result.

Regarding the below two items where would you being your troubleshooting?

What is really odd is that when use a mail client to send and receive through port 2525 seems to be working fine. However, all emails that are sent out are addressed with the server name "[email protected]" and also "[email protected]".

When sending an email from the system, localhost, using Java Mail and using SMTP setting mail.example.com through port 2525 all emails are marked as "Relay Access Denied".